Voluntary layoffs - probably the best form of layoffs if you ask me - still come with severance packages that have to be paid. Very few people will be interested in quitting just because you ask them, but a good many will do it if you sweeten the deal.

Basically we have 3 variants here:

Regular layoffs - have to pay severance + can select who leaves RTO stealth layoffs - don’t have to pay severance + can’t select who leaves Voluntary layoffs - have to pay severance + can’t select who leaves

Any morally bankrupt business would of course want a fourth variant where they get to select who leaves and don’t have to pay severance, but thankfully this option is generally not available to them.

Anyway, voluntary layoffs are the best out of a selection of bad choices for the workers, but come with the most downsides for the morally bankrupt business.

Only has to work once, you pocket the savings on severance packages one time and then go back to regular layoffs.

Dystopian as all hell, but such is the corporate world.

Couldn’t you just start a recording on your regular video camera, do the training, stop the recording and then play it back?

I’m not sure this warrants a different application, to be honest.

(impossible)

Given that they own all of the source code (CLA is required to contribute), they can just stop offering the code under GPL, unless they happen to have any GPL dependencies not under their control, in which case this would not be viable.

I’ve always been writing comments and using variable names in English, at all jobs I’ve had. Probably also the non-professional code before I started writing code professionally.

Part of this is that I’ve been working in a lot of companies with non-Swedish speakers, and another part is that it’s just kind of been expected that the code and everything around it is in English.

This is a good idea, but the name kind of made me think of wanting to require the use of helmets for pedestrians.

That the buildings are owned by the collective of the tenants, which they are in this case.

I switched from transit to cycling, which saves me around $100 a month on the monthly pass we have here in Stockholm. A bit less so since I still occasionally ride transit and those trips now cost around $4 a ride instead of having a marginal cost of 0.

I’m sure I manage to spend similar amounts buying upgrades and gear for my bike so far, but I also save some time for each trip I make since biking is generally faster from where I live. I also get copious amounts of exercise, so I’m still getting out way ahead

200k or more is pretty normal for a unit in a coop here as well. Unfortunately.

Financialization of housing was a huge mistake, one we will pay for the rest of our lives.

Mood honestly

Yeah, it really is a perfect item for communal ownership.

This is considered standard equipment in all apartments in Sweden, both co-op and rentals.

We had that where I grew up, but mostly heavier machine tools like stuff to cut firewood, trailers to haul stuff etc. Cost just $10 a year and you could borrow it as much as you needed. Banger of an idea to be honest.

I know condos exist,

What’s your objection to condos in this case?

I live in an apartment co-op which in many ways is excellent. Highly efficient in both energy, economy and effort required from me. I’m not sure that I’ll ever want to live in a house, this is probably the ideal state for me.

It would in the very least be reasonable to require this standard in cases where the primary evidence used for the conviction has been disproven.

That’s… not how the burdern of proof works at all?

Frustratingly, I believe that’s how it works when attempting to overturn a conviction - as you are already convicted, you are assumed to be guilty and as such have to prove your innocence.

For the record, lunch time is not considered paid time in Sweden either.

I seriously doubt they will actually phase it out, with such a popular TLD. They made an exception for .su, I don’t see why they wouldn’t this time as well.

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